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how can we afford this tax? ...big corporations and the richest two percent. >> what's at stake is the future of america. >> it costs us, and taxes us, too much. >> american future fund is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> ryssdal: i knew right away this wasn't going to be the usual story on campaign finance. one of the first surprises was finding myself driving the dark streets of denver with attorney alan schwartz, who shared kind of a strange experience. >> it was early january of 2011, and my wife, who had just been reelected to the colorado state senate, got an e-mail from someone who claimed to have some information about a group that had sent out some attack ads against my wife. >> ryssdal: the guy said he had some documents, and a week later... >> i heard from this individual again. still not identifying himself, but telling me that if i wanted to see the documents, then i needed to get them that day. >> ryssdal: had to be that day. >> had to be that day. >> ryssdal: schwartz agreed to
how can we afford this tax? ...big corporations and the richest two percent. >> what's at stake is the future of america. >> it costs us, and taxes us, too much. >> american future fund is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> ryssdal: i knew right away this wasn't going to be the usual story on campaign finance. one of the first surprises was finding myself driving the dark streets of denver with attorney alan schwartz, who shared kind of a strange...
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. >> narrator: he had changed his rhetoric on gun rights, gay rights, climate change and the tax pledge. he lost in iowa, new hampshire and florida. just one month into the primaries, romney's campaign was over. >> i entered this race because i love america. i feel i have to now stand aside for our party and for our country. >> narrator: romney had fallen short, unable to secure the presidential nomination. (crowd chanting): mitt! mitt! >> the mitt romney in 2008 was partly a politician and very much a business person and totally a novice to what it meant to be a national candidate. >> narrator: he had spent $45 million of his own money on the campaign. >> on the plane back to boston, following his announcement, he turned to me and he said, "eric, what are you going to do? we've got to figure out what our people are going to do. they're going to be moving on into other jobs." this was not a person who was thinking about running again for president. i think he felt he had his opportunity and the door had closed to him. >> it's a whole new political world for the president. >> narrator: n
. >> narrator: he had changed his rhetoric on gun rights, gay rights, climate change and the tax pledge. he lost in iowa, new hampshire and florida. just one month into the primaries, romney's campaign was over. >> i entered this race because i love america. i feel i have to now stand aside for our party and for our country. >> narrator: romney had fallen short, unable to secure the presidential nomination. (crowd chanting): mitt! mitt! >> the mitt romney in 2008 was...
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tax pollution a carbon tax is been proposed so what we should do first is tax the type of activities that we want to diminish before we tax what we want more of which is labor and i don't you know in fact i think that one of the one of the pieces of the whole understanding of taxation that has been so lost in the last thirty years is that taxes do actually two things one they raise revenue for the government but two they encourage or discourage behavior based on the will of the people which is what you're talking about and we have perverse incentives so people like romney they want all the services in new usa but they go into these tax haven islands overseas like you know bahamas and so forth to pay for is zero taxes and even here it pays fifteen percent that's a capital gain and that's what he says you make a statement deed he hasn't released his tax returns for fourteen years the way his father did when he ran for does we don't know that chapter number to make our communities more self-reliant how do we do ok that's already in place it just got to be more widespread every time we p
tax pollution a carbon tax is been proposed so what we should do first is tax the type of activities that we want to diminish before we tax what we want more of which is labor and i don't you know in fact i think that one of the one of the pieces of the whole understanding of taxation that has been so lost in the last thirty years is that taxes do actually two things one they raise revenue for the government but two they encourage or discourage behavior based on the will of the people which is...
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today in the short term and create jobs is very important i think president romney's idea of cutting taxes for the richest of deregulating of giving more money to the military more than our generals want could very well send america back into the recession from which it is slowly emerging but we talked about the stimulus package so the recession officially ended in two thousand and nine and barack obama with obama in office and at that point even the most conservative estimate said three to five trillion dollars of stimulus were used for the bailouts. what does that exactly do to the whole principle of free market which really made america america you know what i mean you know there's never been a free market really there's never been a free market in any country we've had a market but the market has always had government investment now there's a great hatred of government in america right now the tea party has fueled that but there are millions of americans who also understand there's there's a role for government so that there's a battle underway in america for the soul and spirit and th
today in the short term and create jobs is very important i think president romney's idea of cutting taxes for the richest of deregulating of giving more money to the military more than our generals want could very well send america back into the recession from which it is slowly emerging but we talked about the stimulus package so the recession officially ended in two thousand and nine and barack obama with obama in office and at that point even the most conservative estimate said three to...
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we both agree we agree we had to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree let's come back to something the president i agree on and then to you that the voters have a choice to have sex with you wondering who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things never you do have other options come november sixth going to see the second round in debate with a major third party candidate right here on our t.v. . if. we speak your language they will not advance. news programs and documentaries and spanish matters to you breaking news a little tentative angola's cadence stories. you hear. that troy all teach spanish find out more visit actuality. if. welcome back to spotlight i'm al green of in just a reminder that stephen cohen is my guest on the show today stephen cohen american historian and renowned expert on russia u.s. relations stephen let's stick to the election to the elections upcoming elections in the united states well you are a historian and any story and remember not only historians actually remember that the russia
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and tax cuts for the rich you could see something comparable to the disaster we see in greece in spain and italy and that i think is very frightening whereas obama i think would continue to try and inject some stimulus into the american economy but that the best one way and katrina vanden heuvel thank you very much for this interview thank you. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money mandating it is a shame and it means a lot of people at area sandy his coming down but in the storm's way cool the conversations around the climate change return to american political discourse and debate politics. is evenings. in the. streets. and download the official ati applications to cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's t.v. is now required to watch all its food all you need is your mobile device watch arsene any time any of. the emission free accreditation free in-store charge is free the maintenance free is free. to tide freedom day. download free broadcast plug in video for your media project and a free medio dog r.t. dot com. to me sp
and tax cuts for the rich you could see something comparable to the disaster we see in greece in spain and italy and that i think is very frightening whereas obama i think would continue to try and inject some stimulus into the american economy but that the best one way and katrina vanden heuvel thank you very much for this interview thank you. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money mandating it is a shame and it means a lot of people at area sandy his coming down but in the storm's...
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where your taxes are really going. and the lobby this place among the world's most despicable industries. tuesday is a vote to save the world as we know it a choice between of bully feeding us lawyers under group trying to keep our way of life on tuesday californians start the fight back against genetically modified organisms if proposition thirty seven to force g m o's in this state to be labeled on food we show my plant organics on the white house lawn but frankenfood rules the world two in three u.s. foods already genetically engineered and g.m. seeds now grow in almost every country around the globe. this f.d.a. memo shows most of its own scientists warn g.m.o. there's a danger of still mutations in animals fed chair most much those of people with autism there's still hasn't been a single g.m.o. safety trial. humans so it's yeah it's called just a thirty seven. and the potency of genetically modified crops if you can set up a spoof whole line. hello and thank you for calling my dad you know customer service if you
where your taxes are really going. and the lobby this place among the world's most despicable industries. tuesday is a vote to save the world as we know it a choice between of bully feeding us lawyers under group trying to keep our way of life on tuesday californians start the fight back against genetically modified organisms if proposition thirty seven to force g m o's in this state to be labeled on food we show my plant organics on the white house lawn but frankenfood rules the world two in...
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good evening john i was wondering if anyone had ever done a study on the bush tax cuts. it's never been a knack how much more money would be. against a deficit of the united states it's got to be billions of dollars that would have been earned by our government and. and that amount of time i was wondering if have you or anyone know that the center for american progress has published it on their think progress blog durley i very much appreciate you bringing up this topic because you're absolutely right it's a graphic that we often throw up on the screen that shows the composition of the deficit right now the republicans are all screaming about the deficit if you look at that deficit what you find is that about half of it a little a little less than half of that is the bush tax cuts another a little less than half of it is is the two wars that there were that george bush put on the credit card and medicare part d. word he said that the government can't go she had drug prices so medicare is paying twice as much for drug prices as the military does and then the remainder is
good evening john i was wondering if anyone had ever done a study on the bush tax cuts. it's never been a knack how much more money would be. against a deficit of the united states it's got to be billions of dollars that would have been earned by our government and. and that amount of time i was wondering if have you or anyone know that the center for american progress has published it on their think progress blog durley i very much appreciate you bringing up this topic because you're...
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scientifically unjustified and ministering thirty seven's complex regulations would waste millions of tax dollars of all throwing on a lab coat and a stethoscope does not mean this lady is a doctor or that she gives a crap about your health and to say that a label even would be scientifically unjustified is calling the forty other countries that require labels or a straight up ban g m o's stupid look the cost for california residents is in consequential if you actually look at the text of the ballot measure but i guess a forty one million dollar disinfo campaign can convince people of just about anything so the question you should really be asking yourself is why have these biotech corporations spent so much more money keeping people in the dark than it would just cost them to label the foods. speaking of being behind the rest of the industrialized world the next proposition i want to talk to about is prop thirty four it would end the barbaric practice of capital punishment and california it's titled the death penalty initiative statute the measure passes prop thirty four were to limit th
scientifically unjustified and ministering thirty seven's complex regulations would waste millions of tax dollars of all throwing on a lab coat and a stethoscope does not mean this lady is a doctor or that she gives a crap about your health and to say that a label even would be scientifically unjustified is calling the forty other countries that require labels or a straight up ban g m o's stupid look the cost for california residents is in consequential if you actually look at the text of the...
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some people could afford to pay the poll tax and the greatest civil rights legislation the voting rights act of one nine hundred sixty five said that poll taxes and literacy tests and obstacles the manipulation of the vote that have a discriminatory impact are also illegal in this country so that's why we're winning our case is this is on the republican party platform let's just you know be upfront about it we're nonpartisan but certain politicians are manipulating voting rights for their own political gain and certainly trying to and this raises the question of you know basically getting away with it i mean there you look at katherine harris knocked depending on whose numbers you're looking at twenty to eighty thousand african-americans off the voting rolls in florida before before that five hundred thirty seven count came out you know and and and nobody ever prosecuted nobody ever even discussed it but. so we did we found in those years if we go to jail for this kind of stuff yes that's why we believe in the anti deceptive practices act should be passed that's why we believe in voter r
some people could afford to pay the poll tax and the greatest civil rights legislation the voting rights act of one nine hundred sixty five said that poll taxes and literacy tests and obstacles the manipulation of the vote that have a discriminatory impact are also illegal in this country so that's why we're winning our case is this is on the republican party platform let's just you know be upfront about it we're nonpartisan but certain politicians are manipulating voting rights for their own...
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governor romney and i we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree let's come back to something the president i agree on and the two you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps that's what you wonder who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things remember you do have other options come november sixth tuned in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates right here on our team. i will fight all the natural gas i also promised that i'd buy every single day i'm bad for you to. take over like my own father. earlier this week bahrain issued some very alarming legislation that you may have missed the video election frenzy about government just banned all protests and rallies squashing dissent according to the country's interior minister thirty's were prompted to do this or get maintain security in the island nation. and quell the violations committed by protesters bahrain is no stranger to violations itself in fact it's a well documented violator of human ri
governor romney and i we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree let's come back to something the president i agree on and the two you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps that's what you wonder who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things remember you do have other options come november sixth tuned in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates right...
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forcing a second tax cut he struggled to avoid endorsing the ryan plan and he was pushed and pushed and pushed this latest incident with his foreign policy spokesman is is an example of this romney didn't want to see that person go but he couldn't quite mobilize him to keep from either his father george was kind of an eisenhower. was for his father george and his father george was a opponent of barry goldwater who in one thousand six hundred you supported you know who and what i remember george i grew up in michigan he was my governor in one thousand sixty four that george and he said i accept the goldwater nomination but i do not endorse and he refused to campaign for him and that by the way is an important reason why he was in the nominee in one nine hundred sixty eight and young mitt who was his father's one of his father's closest political allies a brilliant young man their very youngest son their very very close father was too blunt too confrontational and his father alternately lost the big prize too to what extent has has money corrupted the republican party and the conservative
forcing a second tax cut he struggled to avoid endorsing the ryan plan and he was pushed and pushed and pushed this latest incident with his foreign policy spokesman is is an example of this romney didn't want to see that person go but he couldn't quite mobilize him to keep from either his father george was kind of an eisenhower. was for his father george and his father george was a opponent of barry goldwater who in one thousand six hundred you supported you know who and what i remember george...
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a great journalist is on trial for publishing a list of the country's alleged top tax evaders as media workers try to go with threats to freedom of speech. first past the us presidential candidate jill stein is arrested for minor offenses once again just days ahead of the election which critics claim could be raked the finest of flaws in the voting system. and british prime minister david cameron suffers a crushing defeat with the rebels turning on his plans to give more money to the elite. to live from moscow hello and welcome to the wild one a major media scandal is developing in greece where a journalist is on trial charged with a breach of privacy cost as nice as arrested on was arrested on monday after he had published a so-called legard list containing the names of the country's top tax evaders on the same day two t.v. presenters were suspended for criticizing a government minister on greek journalists around the forty eight hours trying on wednesday condemning what they called a crime down on free speech under monologist journalist for their electoral take was newspaper says the
a great journalist is on trial for publishing a list of the country's alleged top tax evaders as media workers try to go with threats to freedom of speech. first past the us presidential candidate jill stein is arrested for minor offenses once again just days ahead of the election which critics claim could be raked the finest of flaws in the voting system. and british prime minister david cameron suffers a crushing defeat with the rebels turning on his plans to give more money to the elite. to...
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governor romney you know we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree let's get back to something the president i agree on and you tube you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps you wonder who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things remember you do have other options come november sixth tuned in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates right here on our team. was mentioned also to scott mccluskey there and barack mitt romney have swapped campaigning to pitch in temporarily with the relief efforts in the aftermath of the deadly superstorm sandy millions in the northeast of the u.s. in our counting the cost of the deadly storm while they remain homeless or without power a transport officially there electioneering was suspended but as you see cuffing off reports on exactly how it looks to everybody. this was the october surprise. and i think. hurricane sandy crashing on shore i've never seen anything like this i'm at a loss for words to describe
governor romney you know we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree let's get back to something the president i agree on and you tube you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps you wonder who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things remember you do have other options come november sixth tuned in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates right here on...
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a tax cut for the top one percent some even after unprecedented deadly tornadoes in joplin the freak damage caused by hurricane irene house republicans held up fema funds and demanded local communities more and what's historically been required and just yesterday when you jersey communities completely wiped away republican congressman steve king warned against giving too much federal aid to those affected by hurricane sandy saying i want to get them the resources that are necessary but not one big shot to just open up the checkbook because they spend it on gucci bags and massage parlors and everything. it's generally much easier for the wealthy to ride out hurricanes from the comfort of their second vacation homes they can even live tweet what they see on the weather channel it's much easier for the wealthy to pay for home repairs of their top of the line home insurance plans and the rich never miss a paycheck because they can't get their work because people like mitt romney and paris hilton get their dividend checks wherever they are and whatever they're doing but what about the ame
a tax cut for the top one percent some even after unprecedented deadly tornadoes in joplin the freak damage caused by hurricane irene house republicans held up fema funds and demanded local communities more and what's historically been required and just yesterday when you jersey communities completely wiped away republican congressman steve king warned against giving too much federal aid to those affected by hurricane sandy saying i want to get them the resources that are necessary but not one...
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we both agree we agree we need to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did. you agree let's go back to something the president i agree on and the two of you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps that's you wonder who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things remember you do have other options come november sixth tune in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates right here on our team. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about you sir are a fool you know what that is my terrorist cells in your neighborhood all want to keep us safe to featuring me on live from the christian point you. can see your beliefs about the. sopranos over here distracts us from what you and i should care about because their profit driven industry that sells us sensationalistic garbage because that breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break this that it's. six. six six six six six. wells fargo is america's fourt
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you know we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree but let's come back to something the president i agree on and the two of you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps you wonder who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things remember you do have other options come november sixth tune in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates right here on r.g.p. . well when rescheduling we possibly we couldn't possibly have taken into account that one of the debate participants would be detained in texas however as of this morning green party candidate jill stein it was arrested she was protesting the keystone x.l. pipeline in texas this is signed second arrest in less than a month the last time she saw handcuffs it was protesting outside of the second debate between president obama and republican candidate mitt romney. and speaking of the election i know it's hard to believe but it is now less than a week away but there are still so many people without po
you know we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree but let's come back to something the president i agree on and the two of you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps you wonder who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things remember you do have other options come november sixth tune in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates right here on r.g.p. ....